This, you remember, was what contemporary scientists told Galen and Harvey, and also what the astronomers told Galileo.
We spoke in a similar strain of radio activity, the fourth dimension, wireless telegraphy, and aerial navigation.
Many erudite members of the medical profession claim that zone therapy and zone analgesia might be interesting if found in Gulliver’s Travels or Munchausen’s Romances, but that emphatically they have no place in medical literature. For every one knows that an egg cannot be made to stand on end.
Yet we are standing this medical egg on end every day.
And there is no reason in the world why any intelligent man or woman, let alone any intelligent doctor, cannot do likewise, and put these simple and helpful methods into practical application. For it doesn’t even require faith.
CHAPTER X. SCRATCHING THE HAND FOR SICK STOMACH.
Many of us know that if we are threatened with sneezing and we press the upper lip tightly against the teeth with the fingers, that we can usually stop the sneeze. Also, that if we drop a cold piece of metal down the back, or press a piece of ice against the back of the neck, it will frequently check nosebleed.
But not many of us know that the reason these things are thus is because, by these actions, we are stimulating normal function in the first zone.